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Inspiral Carpets is an alternative rock artist from Oldham, England formed in 1989. 38 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Alternative Rock · Oldham, England · Best alternative rock albums
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Dung 4
2014
Inspiral Carpets
2014
Life
1990
Greatest Hits
2003
Revenge of the Goldfish
1992
The Beast Inside
1991
Cool As
2003
Devil Hopping
1994
The Singles
2013
Saturn 5
1994
Bitches Brew
1992
Caravan
1991
Generations
1992
Burn Like The Sun
2027
The Complete Singles
2026
Uniform
2026
Life (Extended Edition)
2026
I Want You
2026
Keep the Circle: B-sides and Udder Stuff
2013
Dragging Me Down
EP · 1992
Two Worlds Collide
EP · 1992
She Comes in the Fall
Single · 2026
Please Be Cruel
EP · 2026
Changes (Martyn Walsh & Simon Lyon Remix)
Single · 2026
This Is How It Feels (The Go! Team Remix 2023)
Single · 2026
Let You Down
Single · 2015
Spitfire
Single · 2014
Fix Your Smile
Single · 2013
You're So Good For Me
Single · 2011
Come Back Tomorrow
Single · 2003
How It Should Be
Single · 1993
Joe
Single · 1990
Commercial Rain
Single · 1990
She Comes in the Fall / Sackville
Single · 1990
Island Head EP
EP · 1990
This Is How It Feels
Single · 1990
Move
Single · 1989
Keep The Circle Around
Single · 1988
Inspiral Carpets are an alternative rock band from Oldham in Greater Manchester, England formed by Graham Lambert and Stephen Holt in 1983. The band is named after a clothing shop on their Oldham estate. Their sound is based around psychedelic keyboards and guitars. Schoolfriends Lambert and Holt recruited drummer Craig Gill, and formed Inspiral Carpets in 1983, originally as a garage punk band. After various other members had come and gone, by 1987 the line-up included bassist David Swift and organist Clint Boon (whose Ashton-under-Lyne studio the band had been using for rehearsals). The band released two albums worth of demos in the 1980s, Waiting for Ours and Songs of Shallow Intensity, including songs that would later be re-recorded. They came to prominence, alongside bands like The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, in the 'Madchester' scene of the late 1980s. After a flexi-disc featuring Garage Full Of Flowers given free with Manchester's Debris magazine in 1987, followed by the Cow cassette, their first release proper, the 1988 Planecrash EP on the Playtime label received much airplay from Radio 1 DJ John Peel, who asked the band to record a session for his show. At the time o…